CHAPTER 14

Assessing Fire Risks

We shall be taking the same approach as for safety and health hazards to consider fire hazards in this section, although the question of who might be at risk is perhaps less clear. Fire risks are much more closely tied to location rather than specific activities, although of course these have an impact too. While the potential for harm or injury to occur to an occasional visitor to a particular area of the site is relatively low, these occasional visitors may in fact be at greater risk from fire than someone who is familiar with the site.

This means that your assessment of risk needs to be more carefully considered in this section than in the previous two. In addition, you need to give more thought to what might ...

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